Improvement in buttons



UNITED STATES PATENT EFICE.

PHLANDER H. BENEDICT, OF SYRACUSE, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,772?, dated March 14, 1865.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, PHILANDER H. BENE- DICT, of the city or Syracuse, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons and i do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon and forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a side view ofthe button part or head; Fig. 2, aside view of the fastening part. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section ofthe whole button with the fastening part inserted. Fig. 4: represents a side view of the whole button withthe fastening part inserted. Fig. 5 represents the inner surface of the button part, showing the concave surface and the place for the screw-hole. Fig. 6 represents the top ofthe button part or head. Fig. 7 represents the top of the fastening p trt.

The same letters indicate corresponding parts in the dierent figures.

I make my button with abutton part, a b c d, and a' fastening part, ef g. The button partis made with a button-head, a, a neck, b, and shoulder c, with a screw-hole, d, running into or through the same. The fastening part is made with the screw-head e and the screwstem f of the proper size and thread to work in the screw-hole d.

I make the outer' surface ot' the shoulder c and the inner surface ot' the screw-head e slightly concave, as shown at g in Fig. 3, so that the pressure or strain upon the cloth or other material upon which itis used will be at the outer rim ot' the same, and thus prevent the material from tearing` out at the hole where the screw passes through it.

The button maybe made of hard wood, metal, or any other materia-'Qin common usc for the manufacture ot' the same.

Vhat l claim as my improvement is- A button constructed with the parts a, b, C, d, @,fand g, substantially as described.

l. H. BENEDIGT.

Witnesses:

N. B. SMITH, J. HUNT. 

